Icing Your Woes: Ice Early, Ice Often

by | Injuries, Workout Tips

One of the biggest mistakes that you can make is to ignore aches and pains when they are minor. Your body is very good at telling you things; the trick is learning how to distinguish between minor tears that are getting repaired and major tears that could lead to an...

Weight Lifting with a Broken Finger

by | Injuries, Personal

A week ago, I broke my ring finger. On my way out the door the next day to go do my Monday morning weight lifting workout, I realized that that probably was not a very good idea. As such, I took the last week off from lifting and just did a lot of running. Which I...

The Broken Finger

by | Injuries, Personal

It is amazing how something as simple as catching a football wrong can derail your workout plans. After my mile race on Sunday, I spent the afternoon at the beach tossing the football back and forth while out wading in the ocean. One wrong catch, and the finger has...

Idiots on Motorcycles

by | Injuries, News, Sports

I have written about professional sports contracts before, and how the news tends to focus on the guys that make fools of themselves rather than on those that have a good work ethic. Some of you may remember the bonehead move by Kellen Winslow who has yet to have any...

Paul Tergat misses London Marathon

by | Injuries, Sports

Paul Tergat won the New York City marathon last November, and has been training really well in the lead up to next weekend’s London Marathon. Tergat had to pull out of the London Marathon at the last minute, though, due to a calf injury. Tergat said: “What...